Chairs Annual Meeting Report

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Chairs Annual Meeting Report

• April 16, 2009

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Welcome!

• Stewardship Ontario Annual Meeting
• First meeting for Blue Box MHSW stewards with
  fully functioning programs

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Contributing to sustainable communities

• Residents connect with Stewardship Ontario
• Simple acts help reuse resources, lessen the
  need for more create green jobs

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2008 Highlights

• MHSW program launch
• January 22
• network of collection locations, transporters
  processors
• Objective channel leftover materials
• to reuse recycling solutions
• away from landfill

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MHSW Program End of 2008

• 12M people with access to MHSW collection through
  300 municipal agreements
• Retailer agreements drop-off centres for
  leftover paint, non-rechargeable batteries used
  oil filters
• 85 Home Depots
• 95 participating RONA stores
• 39 Jiffy Lube 2 Pro Oil Change auto service
  centres

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MHSW Public Interface Website

• Consumers find locations to take designated
  products containers by
• municipality
• postal code
• material type
• www.dowhatyoucan.ca

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MHSW dowhatyoucan.ca
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MHSW Service Providers Stewards

• Approved 37 transporters 25 processors
• Municipal hazardous special material (MHSM)
  stewards
• 330 companies registered
• file stewards reports
• remit fees

6M of 28M for year one remitted in first few
months
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Blue Box Program?Goals

• Provide funding to meet 50 share of municipal
  residential recycling program net cost
• Work with municipalities
• increase program efficiency
• address system problems (e.g. harder-to-manage
  packaging)

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Blue Box Program?2008

• Steward direct cash payments
• 2008 51.7M to 200 municipalities
• 5-year total 216M since 2004 program launch
• In-kind advertising space
• 2008 7M from daily community newspapers
• Effectiveness Efficiency (EE) Fund
• 20M for 75 projects over past 4 years

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Continuous Improvement Fund (CIF)

• Created in 2008
• 20 of stewards annual obligation to
  municipalities
• 13M in year one
• Grants loans to municipalities
• Projects to increase recycling cost efficiency
  program effectiveness

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Achievements (1)

• Ontarians diverted 63 of available recyclables

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Achievements (2)

• Glass market development 8 projects include
  1.75M for Unical Inc. (Brampton)
• 10M savings to 5 municipalities over 7 years
• Plastics market development
• increased recovery in Brockville
  bottles/tubs/lids pilot
• framework to identify processing for plastics

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Brockville Pilot Project
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Achievements (3)

• Blue Box stewards
• 1,444 filed reports in calendar 2008
• of that, 1,038 were obligated to pay fees
  totalling 67M
• remainder were under de minimus

Stewardship Ontario uses stewards money wisely!
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Support for Municipal Recycling Programs
Stewardship Ontario administrative costs are
lowest of any comparable Canadian program
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Principles

• For municipalities
• pay to best practices
• encourage continuous improvement
• invest in system optimization
• build market capacity
• For stewards
• incent performance through fees
• vigilant about ensuring level playing field

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Stewardship Ontario

• First industry funding organization
• set standards

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Blue Box Program Plan Consultation

• 10 points including
• overall recycling target
• material specific recycling targets
• collecting hard-to-handle containers
• extended producer responsibility (EPR)
• 100 funding

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Extended Producer Responsibility

• Producer of packages products is responsible
  for ensuring proper management at end of life
  cycle, even after consumer is finished with the
  product.

MHSW stewards currently paying 80 going to
100 in Phase 2
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Other factors

• Global economy
• affecting markets for secondary resources
• lower revenues
• municipalities industry sharing pain

Higher net system costs higher stewards fees
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Summary of achievements

• Completed 5 years of Blue Box Plan
• Launched MHSW program
• Focused on Blue Box glass plastics
• Broadened steward base
• Met financial obligations

Accomplished by working together
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• Thank you!